Tlayolan

Tlayolan, also called Tzapotlan, was an indigenous settlement in the valley south of the Jalisco highlands. Before the Spanish conquest it lay under the authority of the Michoacan lordship. Spanish forces entered the region in 1522, and in 1533 the colonial town of Santa María de la Asunción de Zapotlán was established. Franciscan friars made Zapotlán a base from which they visited other towns in southern Jalisco.